Greetings all

Hi Andy,
…..from up here in Auckland (and sometimes from Northland).
Will definitely peruse your gallery  - nice to see another Kiwi on AB.
I saw your 'once in a lifetime' aurora shot (beautiful) and I've heard there was another big burst from the sun on the 1/10 so fingers crossed maybe for a 'twice in a lifetime' 
Cheers
Logan

Andy williams:
Hi there,
I hadn’t realised that there was an NZ specific group on here until Daniel Petzen pointed it out to me.
My name is Andy and I live in Waipawa, Central Hawke’s bay.
I've been into astronomy most of my life and astrophotography proper for about the last 5 years.
I most often use an SW 150pds reflector and an SW 80 Ed Esprit. I couple this will either my asi1600mm pro or my new toy, an asi 533mc pro.
I will be perusing all of your images and, please, feel free to check my images out 😊
I look forward to chatting with you all…..
in the mean time Kia Ora one and all 
cheers,
Andy

Welcome to the group Andy. I mostly image at the moment with a 250mm aperture f/5.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham scope made by Beamtech in Australia, or a C11 Edge HD SCT with a Hyperstar lens at f/2, or less often with 130 or 140 mm f/7 APO refractors from TS and APM, using mainly a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, and capturing my data with a ZWO Asiair Plus device, on a 10Micron brand mount, from our rural backyard.

I  also like your Aurora shot very much. I got a few images that May night just with my Samsung mobile phone hand-held, from here in the northern Bay of Plenty. I missed the more recent aurora nights as I was away and too close to the equator to get them.

A collage of three of my rather blurry handheld mobile phone shots of the big May Aurora from the BOP.